Flight

The Genius of Birds

Flight is highlighted by technical and artistic excellence that rivals documentaries like Planet Earthand March of the Penguins. Photographed in North America, Peru, England, Greenland and Antarctica, Flight combines stunning imagery and computer animation with cutting-edge research and an original musical score to celebrate birds and their incomparable ability to live in the skies.

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Very educational, or so it seems, but the ending takes a strange tangent. What starts as a lovely film about birds and insects and how they flight soon becomes a movie about how humans cannot know the mysteries of flight because clearly it was made by a higher power? I'm not knocking religion or anything, but even this argument seemed to be very weak.

If you think you are about to see great scenes of birds flying or wonderful cinematography, don't bother. There are brief lovely scenes of hummingbirds and starlings but little else. The genius of flight is poorly explained and I would have liked to hear from an actual scientist.

Propaganda by the Discovery Institute, which is listed in the credits, but after a company of lawyers, which is odd for a Nature film to need. It seems that a lot of the material was purloined from people who did not approve of their name being associated with this film in any way.
The film starts out nicely enough, seeming to be a Nature film, but then it takes a strange leap off the anti-evolution cliff.
It does give some insight into the mindset of the anti-evolution crowd, which can be hard to understand because when you ask them for an explanation they always do something profoundly immoral once they run out of patience.
This film is done by Young Earth Creationists, not Old Earth Creationists.
This means that they can not imagine that our world could be developed over an incredibly long time. Birds have been around for 165 million years, since the Jurasic period, and these folks can not accept that.
Then they make a serious theological error: rather than observe the world and Mankind's place in it and wonder at the power of God, they remake God in the image of Mankind, and assume that what we could do is what God does.
This is a sin against the First Commandment, for the Judao-Christian-Islamic tradition.
It is best to avoid this film unless you want to see how a well-financed lie works.

nancywinans56
Oct 16, 2013

A beautiful and fascinating film, and thought-provoking too, for those capable of re-thinking Darwinian orthodoxy.